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Dr. Berenholtz has served as principle investigator or co-investigator on more than a dozen grants or contracts to develop, implement and evaluate patient safety improvement efforts. These include national and statewide programs that reduced central line-related bloodstream infections, surgical site infections, ventilator-associated pneumonia and other complications.

Dr. Aboumatar’s research focuses on improving patient-centered outcomes via increased patient and family engagement and activation, and employment of multilevel strategies to improve patient-centeredness of care delivery. She directs the institute’s Center for Engagement and Patient-Centered Innovations.

Dr. Austin’s research focuses on evaluating and improving measures of patient safety and health care quality. Among other roles, he provides strategic guidance to The Leapfrog Group on performance measures for its annual Hospital Survey and Hospital Safety Grade.

An industrial/organizational psychologist, Dr. Benishek focuses her research on professional talent development, safety and well-being, as well as teamwork and unit dynamics. She is also supporting the institute’s efforts to build capacity in patient safety and quality improvement leadership across Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Dr. Gurses is a human factors engineer with expertise in patient safety, health care technology design, and usability evaluation. Among other projects, she has focused on improving patient safety in the cardiac operating room, transitions of care/handoffs, care coordination, compliance of providers with evidence-based guidelines and nursing working conditions. She leads the institute’s Center for Health Care Human Factors.

Dr. Lubomski’s work focuses on improving patient safety and quality through large-scale collaborative efforts focused on the delivery of evidence-based care, improving teamwork and communication in multidisciplinary teams, translating evidence into practice, data collection and management, and research ethics in quality improvement. She is a faculty advisor to Johns Hopkins Health System’s Clinical Communities, manages the Armstrong Institute’s Research in Progress seminar series, and is the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program executive for the Green Spring Station ob-gyn service.

Jill Marsteller, Ph.D.
Professor of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health

Dr. Marsteller is a health services researcher who specializes in organizational behavior and theory, specifically in estimating the influence of organizational variables and contextual measures on quality improvement activities. She focuses her research on the determinants of successful implementation, dissemination, and sustainability of knowledge. Marsteller chairs the institute’s Research Facilitation Council Chair and is a member of its Executive Committee and Faculty Review Committee.

As the Armstrong Institute’s head of clinical innovation, Dr. Mathews leads efforts to leverage technology to advance quality and safety. He is also active in the institute’s ongoing mission to transform hospitals and health systems into highly reliable organizations by strengthening governance structures for safety and quality improvement. He serves as assistant director at the institute’s location at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He is also a practicing gastroenterologist with a focus on quality and safety outcomes.

Dr. Rosen is a human factors psychologist whose research focuses on teamwork and patient safety, simulation for training and work system design and evaluation, unobtrusive and sociometric measurement systems, implementation science, leadership and change management for safety and quality improvement.

Dr. Xie uses human factors and systems engineering approaches to improve the quality of care and patient safety. Among other topics, his research has focused on improving patient and family engagement, infection prevention, cleaning of hospital rooms, and clinical decision support.

Dr. Yuan’s research focuses on the dissemination and implementation of health care innovations, with a special interest in how health care providers influence and learn from one another. She is a member if the institute’s Faculty Review Committee and Research Facilitation Council.